Interface RDFTerm

All Known Subinterfaces:

BlankNode, BlankNodeOrIRI, IRI, JsonLdBlankNode, JsonLdIRI, JsonLdLiteral, JsonLdTerm, Literal, RDF4JBlankNode, RDF4JBlankNodeOrIRI, RDF4JIRI, RDF4JLiteral, RDF4JTerm, SimpleRDF.SimpleRDFTerm

All Known Implementing Classes:

AbstractRDFTerm, BlankNodeImpl, BlankNodeImpl, IRIImpl, IRIImpl, JsonLdBlankNodeImpl, JsonLdIRIImpl, JsonLdLiteralImpl, JsonLdTermImpl, LiteralImpl, LiteralImpl, Types, W3CRDFSyntax.FormatIRI

public interface RDFTerm

An RDF-1.1 Term, as defined by RDF-1.1 Concepts and Abstract Syntax, a W3C Recommendation published on 25 February 2014.

A RDFTerm object in Commons RDF is considered immutable, that is, over its life time it will have consistent behaviour for its equals(Object) and hashCode(), and objects returned from its getter methods (e.g. IRI.getIRIString() and Literal.getLanguageTag()) will have consistent equals(Object) behaviour.

Note that methods in RDFTerm and its Commons RDF specialisations IRI, BlankNode and Literal are not required to return object identical (==) instances as long as they are equivalent according to their Object.equals(Object). Further specialisations may provide additional methods that are documented to be mutable.

Methods in RDFTerm and its Commons RDF specialisations IRI, BlankNode and Literal are thread-safe, however further specialisations may add additional methods that are documented to not be thread-safe.

RDFTerms can be safely used in hashing collections like HashSet and HashMap.

Any RDFTerm can be used interchangeably across Commons RDF implementations.

See Also:

• RDF-1.1 Term

Method Summary

Modifier and Type	Method	Description
boolean	equals(Object other)	Check it this RDFTerm is equal to another RDFTerm.
int	hashCode()	Calculate a hash code for this RDFTerm.
String	ntriplesString()	Return the term serialised as specified by the RDF-1.1 N-Triples Canonical form.

Method Details

ntriplesString

String ntriplesString()

Return the term serialised as specified by the RDF-1.1 N-Triples Canonical form.

Returns:

The term serialised as RDF-1.1 N-Triples.

See Also:

• RDF-1.1 N-Triples Canonical form

equals

boolean equals(Object other)

Check it this RDFTerm is equal to another RDFTerm.

If this object is an IRI, equality is checked using IRI.equals(Object), or if this object is a BlankNode, equality is checked using BlankNode.equals(Object), or if this object is a Literal, equality is checked using Literal.equals(Object).

Implementations MUST also override hashCode() so that two equal Literals produce the same hash code.

Overrides:

equals in class Object

Parameters:

other - Another object

Returns:

true if other is a RDFTerm and is equal to this

See Also:

• IRI.equals(Object)
• BlankNode.equals(Object)
• Literal.equals(Object)

hashCode

int hashCode()

Calculate a hash code for this RDFTerm.

As an RDFTerm is immutable, this method will always return the same hashCode over the lifetime of this object.

This method MUST be implemented in conjunction with equals(Object) so that two equal RDFTerm produce the same hash code.

Overrides:

hashCode in class Object

Returns:

a hash code value for this RDFTerm.

See Also:

• IRI.hashCode()
• Literal.hashCode()
• BlankNode.hashCode()